Great Short Stories: A New Collection of Famous Examples from the Literatures of France, England and America, Volume 2William Patten P.F. Collier & Son, 1906 |
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Achanna answered asked auld Baron Blackwater Bob Cratchit called candle castle CHARLES DICKENS Christmas Clarimonde Clayborough Coverack Cratchit cried dark dead death Dominicus door dream Dwerrihouse ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN eyes face father fear fell felt Fezziwig fire frae Ghost glance Gloom gudesire hand head heard heart Higginbotham Ian Macarthur Isaac Jacob Marley Jelf Katreen Kimballton Kitty knew LA MORTE AMOREUSE laughed light living lock looked merry mind morning murder never night once passed poor Redgauntlet replied rickshaw round Scrooge Scrooge's nephew seemed seen Sérapion shadow Sheumais side SIGNAL-MAN Simla Sir John sleep Soulis spectre Spirit Spreckdal Steenie stood story strange tell thee thing thou thought Tiny Tim told took trumpeter turned Uncle Scrooge voice walked watch weel Wessington whispered window woman word young
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Page 258 - A merry Christmas, uncle ! God save you ! " cried a cheerful voice. It was the voice of Scrooge's nephew, who came upon him so quickly that this was the first intimation he had of his approach. "Bah !" said Scrooge. "Humbug !" He had so heated himself with rapid walking in the fog and frost, this nephew of Scrooge's, that he was all in a glow. His face was ruddy and handsome ; his eyes sparkled, and his breath smoked again. "Christmas a humbug, uncle ! " said Scrooge's nephew. " You don't mean that,...
Page 300 - Suppose it should not be done enough! Suppose it should break in turning out! Suppose somebody should have got over the wall of the...
Page 283 - Clear away! There was nothing they wouldn't have cleared away, or couldn't have cleared away, with old Fezziwig looking on. It was done in a minute. Every movable was packed off, as if it were dismissed from public life...
Page 292 - ... petrifaction of a hearth had never known in Scrooge's time, or Marley's, or for many and many a winter season gone. Heaped up on the floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking-pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, barrels of oysters, red-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething 53 bowls of punch, that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam.
Page 300 - Cratchit called a circle, meaning half a one ; and at Bob Cratchit's elbow stood the family display of glass ; two tumblers and a custard-cup without a handle. These held the hot stuff from the jug, however, as well as golden goblets would have done ; and Bob served it out with beaming looks, while the chestnuts on the fire sputtered and crackled noisily. Then Bob proposed : " A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us ! " Which all the family re-echoed.
Page 329 - A remarkable boy! Do you know whether they've sold the prize turkey that was hanging up there? Not the little prize turkey: the big one?
Page 263 - you don't think me ill-used, when I pay a day's wages for no work.
Page 283 - ... pushing, some pulling; in they all came, anyhow and everyhow. Away they all went, twenty couple at once, hands half round and back again the other way; down the middle and up again; round and round in various stages of affectionate grouping; old top couple always turning up in the wrong place; new top couple starting off again, as soon as they got there; all top couples at last, and not a bottom one to help them. When this result was brought about, old Fezziwig, clapping his hands to stop the...
Page 255 - Scrooge and he were partners for I don't know how many years. Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend and sole mourner.
Page 272 - Expect the second on the next night at the same hour. The third upon the next night when the last stroke of twelve has ceased to vibrate. Look to see me no more; and look that, for your own sake, you remember what has passed between us!